how well does mitt romney have to do for us to start writing the mitt romney comeback story? >> he has to do very well. he's in a race that's a five-point or six-point national decline on his part. he's losing in all of the electoral states. he does not want to get in a situation where this goes past him and he can't catch up. he's got to do it on october 3rd. and he has to do well. and i think the race will close. he'll show up and do reasonably well. but he has to do that. >> you have said in your online column that it's more about style than substance for him. why? >> if you take a look at the history of debates, it's not really about policy specifics. it's not really about facts. people have heard a lot about that. they've seen it. they've read it. it's more about the cues that indicate the personality or how they're going to be or mannerisms. every debate has changed because of somebody's mannerisms or style did badly or did well. that's where changes occur. >> going through the primaries, i believe he debated 20 times. in a lot of the debates, everybody was attacking hi